Fifth Generation

44. Alma Emilie BACKHAUS was born on 23 January 1896 in Adrian Township, Monroe County, WI.^50,54,133 She was baptized on 1 May 1896 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.¹³³ at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. She died on 13 March 1985 at the age of 89 in Tomah, Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.^50,54 Alma was buried on 16 March 1985 in Jacksonville, Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.^50,54,71 at the Mount Vernon Cemetery.

Alma Emilie BACKHAUS and Leo Otto Ernst NEAS were married on 26 March 1913 in Ridgeville Township, Monroe County, WI.^54,72,134 Leo Otto Ernst NEAS, son of Friedrich Wilhelm NEAS and Emilie Emma ZELLMER, was born on 21 April 1891.^1,23,72 He appeared in the census in 1900 in Adrian Township, Monroe County, WI.²³ He died on 4 May 1940 at the age of 49.^1,72 Leo was buried in Jacksonville, Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.⁷¹ in the Mount Vernon Cemetery.